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very clearly. A nest containing three eggs was found at Hooper, June 16, built 
in a greasewood bush a few inches above the ground. 
Junco aikeni. White-winged Jnnco. One or two seen at Querida, February, 
1909. The rarest of the three Juncos seen there. 
Junco mearnsi. Pink-sided Junco. Common about Querida, February, 1909. 
Junco phaeonotus caniceps. Gray-headed Junco. Seen near Poncha Pass, in 
Madenos Canon (specimens collected at both localities), 4 miles south of Rosita, at 
Querida, and in Hardscrabble Canon. It was common at Querida in February, 1909. 
Melospiza melodia montana. Mountain Song Sparrow. Seen at Glendale, near 
Salida, and at our Poncha Pass camp. At Westcliffe I took a full grown young of 
the year, July 24. 
Melospiza georgiana. Swamp Sparrow. Merritt Cary took one at the Medano 
Ranch, October 23, 1907 {Auk, xxvi, p. 182, April, 1909). Both Durand and 
myself looked industriously for the bird, but failed to find any, so I am much 
inclined to think Cary’s bird was a straggling migrant. 
Pipilo maculatus montanus. Mountain Towhee. Seen near Cotopaxi, Howard, 
and Badger, all being points along the Arkansas River. 
Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. Canon Towhee. One was taken west of Canon 
City, just east of Eight Mile Park, and one seen near Pinon station. 
Pipilo aberti. Abert’s Towhee. The single record of this species for Colorado 
is based on what one cannot help thinking decidedly unsatisfactory evidence, a 
nest containing two eggs which Henshaw found at the San Luis Lakes, and which 
he says he compared with specimens in the Smithsonian and considered them to 
belong to Abert’s Towhee. No birds were seen at the nest, and he says it had 
evidently been deserted a short time before. Mr. Aiken tells me that the next 
year after Henshaw was there, 1874, he saw a bird he supposed was this in the same 
locality, but had only a glimpse of it, and was unable to shoot it. I saw no 
Towhees of any kind at the lakes. 
Oreospiza chlorura. Green-tailed Towhee. Taken near Poncha Pass, and at 
Durkee Ranch; seen at Mosca Creek, in Madenos Canon, near Rosita, at West- 
cliffe, and in Hardscrabble Canon. The one shot at Durkee Ranch was quite high 
up in a cottonwood tree working about among the branches in what struck me as 
an un-towhee-like fashion, so much so that I was puzzled to know what the bird 
was until I picked it up. It may be a well known habit, I can only say I never 
noticed it before. 
Zamelodia melanocephala. Black-headed Grosbeak. Taken on mesa east of 
Beaver Creek; seen in Copper Gulch, near Texas Creek, between Salida and Poncha 
Springs, at Muddy Creek, in Hardscrabble Canon, and at Fountain. 
Calamospiza melanocorys. Lark Bunting. One or two were seen near Turkey 
Creek; a mixed flock of 15 or 20, males and females, old and young, were seen 
near Westcliffe, and some were seen at various places between Beulah and Colorado 
Springs. 
Piranga ludoviciana. Western Tanager. Seen but once during the whole trip, 
in Copper Gulch. 
Petrochelidon lunifrons. Cliff Swallow. Seen at Coaldale, about Moffatt, 
Hooper, and Mosca. At the latter place is a grain elevator, about which the birds 
were in swarms; I counted 108 nests on one side under the eaves, and there seemed 
to be as many on the other side; this would mean over 400 adult birds, to say 
nothing of the young. There were many at the Medano Ranch, and they were 
seen at Muddy Creek, Querida, Westcliffe, and near Beulah. 
Hirundo erythrogaster. Barn Swallow. Seen at a ranch south of Colorado 
